{"id":6402,"date":"2009-12-14T14:02:57","date_gmt":"2009-12-14T19:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/jesuscreed\/2009\/12\/14\/to-look-after-orphans-mabanteneni-carepoint\/"},"modified":"2009-12-14T14:02:57","modified_gmt":"2009-12-14T19:02:57","slug":"to-look-after-orphans-mabanteneni-carepoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2009\/12\/14\/to-look-after-orphans-mabanteneni-carepoint\/","title":{"rendered":"To Look after Orphans: Mabanteneni CarePoint"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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I have been saying for about a month now that I wanted to make a proposal with readers of the Jesus Creed blog. Today I would like to announce that I\u2019m asking you to join Kris and me in supporting a CarePoint in Swaziland that could make a life-saving and spiritual difference in the lives of hundreds of underfed and orphaned children.\u00a0<\/font><\/div>\n

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Here\u2019s what we are asking you to do: We want to join together financially, in prayer, and eventually in trips to Swaziland. We want to focus the Jesus Creed blog\u2019s concern on a CarePoint called Mabanteneni<\/b>. We are committing funds to HopeChest, an organization designed by Tom Davis (pictured), and they will process our gifts and provide funds and services for Mabanteneni and the children there.\u00a0<\/font><\/div>\n

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But this is more than giving money for food. We want to help build a sustainable infrastructure at Mabanteneni. \u00a0Thus, I want to share with my goal: I\u2019m praying and yearning and hoping you will join us to begin by providing healthy food for children and discipleship training by a local pastor. Then we want to help with the construction of structures, including things like a kitchen, a well for clean water, fences for security\u2026.<\/font><\/div>\n

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How do you give? If you\u2019d like to sponsor a child, click on our Sponsor Child page<\/a>. There are also some pictures of children and CarePoints<\/a>. And do check out Nsoko<\/a>.\u00a0It costs less than 40 dollars per month to care for the basic needs of an orphaned child.<\/font><\/div>\n

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Let me tell you more about Mabanteneni.<\/font><\/div>\n

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First, if you\u2019d like to read Tom Davis\u2019 own story, please order and read his Fields of the Fatherless: Discover the Joy of Compassionate Living<\/a>\"\"
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\n<\/strong><\/em>. These two books will reveal Tom\u2019s heart and why we are going with HopeChest.<\/font><\/div>\n

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Our CarePoint, Mabantaneni, is located in the Nsoko region of southern Swaziland.\u00a0 Recent years has dealt this region a serious famine and both the HIV\/AIDS and orphan crisis is particularly severe here.\u00a0 Swaziland is losing over 2% of their population each year to AIDS and the overall population has decreased nearly 300,000 to approximately 950,000 over the past 5 years.\u00a0<\/font><\/div>\n
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It is estimated that 12% of the population are orphans.\u00a0 There is little economic opportunity and the current rate of children reaching 5th grade in this region is around 40%. \u00a0HopeChest was recently in this region and visited 4 new CarePoint locations as well as a number of \u2018homesteads\u2019, and they report that the situation there is desperate.\u00a0<\/font><\/div>\n

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Recently, Bob Mudd, with HopeChest, saw a 4 year old girl who had pushed a wheelbarrow more than mile with four empty, dirty water bottles. She had traveled to the CarePoint to get water for her and her family.<\/font><\/div>\n
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This CarePoint is anchored to the Nsoko CarePoint that was started by Pastor Walter.\u00a0 He is a well educated\u00a0native Swazi that left a law practice to start the ministry in Nsoko.\u00a0 He has mapped out a CarePoint and Church planting strategy for the entire region.\u00a0 Currently, the anchor CarePoint has a church, his homestead, a soccer field and a small medical clinic (the only one available to the people in the region) that will be opening soon.<\/font><\/div>\n

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It is also a homebase for \u2018World Race\u2019 participants. (We are asking the Jesus Creed community to cooperate with World Race folks to care for Mabanteneni.) \u00a0When HopeChest\u2019s leaders were in this region recently a group of 9 college age students were spending 3 months in service to Pastor Gifts CarePoints in the region.\u00a0 There is a Safari within 20 miles that provide for accomodations for visiting teams when they travel.\u00a0\u00a0<\/font><\/div>\n
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One of HopeChest\u2019s leaders, Bob Mudd, spent significant time with Pastor Gift and they all have the highest level of confidence in his ability to lead this ministry operationally and spiritually.<\/font><\/div>\n
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Pastor Gift has a blog at:\u00a0http:\/\/pastorgift.myadventures.org<\/a><\/font><\/div>\n
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Below is his description of this CarePoint:<\/font><\/div>\n
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Mabantaneni 1 was started during the height of the famine.\u00a0 It was started as a community drive.\u00a0 The community came to\u00a0us and asked for help \u2013 there was no food and they were sick.\u00a0\u00a0\n

Many of the children are young \u2013 many are the children of young ladies who are unwed and leave the children with the grannies of the neighborhood.\u00a0 Now the mothers are sick and dying of AIDS. Bob has\u00a0taken 8 at a time to the clinic.\u00a0 They have sores of all kinds \u2013 ear infections, distended stomachs and red hair from malnutrition.\u00a0 Some are showing signs of being HIV positive.\u00a0The Chief has donated land but right now the CarePoint is at a temporary place until there are funds to develop the piece of land \u2013 fence, kitchen, then other facilities.\u00a0
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HopeChest in Swaziland typically works a three phased approach that is laid out simply below:

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*Launch child sponsorship which will insure daily feeding to all of the children in the region of the CarePoint (considered walking distance).<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
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*Begin discipleship through weekly scheduled activities.\u00a0 When World Race or JesusCreed teams are in country we can run week-long camps.<\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
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*Begin fundraising for long term CarePoint needs to include a fence, kitchen, storage\u00a0and multipurpose building (often used for school and church activities).<\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
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Phase II<\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
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*Begin to meet the security needs of the children through development of an education strategy, long term health strategy, micro-enterprise and potentially foster-care.<\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
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Phase III<\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
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*Community development, including family training (80% don\u2019t have fathers in the home) and church planting.<\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
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